In leading and participating in our Association, NSAA strives to be
recognized as an organization of stature in the business and broader
community. Our Association Values are an important guide to members,
the business and broader community about who we are and what we stand
for as members of National Speakers Association of Australia.
Our Association Values describe what is important to us. They inform
behaviour. These values determine what we stand for as a community of
professional speakers. Our Association Values are guiding principles to
assist our individual and collective thoughts, words, decisions and
actions.
Our Values are aspirational, some people may not always live by them
and as such are different from our Code of Conduct. Our Ethics
Principles and The Code of Conduct is what we hold our members
accountable for and where disciplinary action may be taken.
Values change in emphasis depending on the given context so they have a
dynamic quality to them. Certain values will have higher priorities in
certain contexts. This is where judgment and collaboration becomes
important.
Practical Application of our Association Values
In their most practical use, our Association Values are used as a
reference point for decision making, particularly at board or chapter
leadership level especially in regard to policy.
When choosing a course of action, reference to our Association Values
will provide assistance when asking and answering the question.....
“In this decision and consequences of this decision, will I, as a
member of the NSAA, be living the values to which I have committed?”
Alignment With Our Association
The mission of NSAA is to ensure the standard of excellence in the
profession of speaking and to promote professional speaking through:
• A belief in and adherence to the highest standard of ethics.
• Demonstrated professional competence.
• A commitment to continued development of expertise and knowledge.
• A responsibility to clients and to the profession
Our Association Core Values
Community: An understanding that we
are part of a local and international community of people who use the
power of the word and share the platform to enrich the potential of
ourselves and others. Our community embraces generosity in sharing our
gifts, talents, knowledge, expertise and experience and a willingness
to respect and accept the legitimacy of alternate opinions and
experiences and to strive to work together to give and receive
reciprocal value.
Growth: An attitude supported by thought and action to
continually challenge mediocrity in ourselves, personally and
collectively in the many pursuits and facets of our lives.
Possibility Thinking: An open-mindedness to pursue the
potential of success, to embrace technology and through our own
personal empowerment to assist others find their own possible futures.
Integrity: To promise and commit to that which we can
and ought to deliver and to deliver on those promises to the best of
our abilities; to act congruently with the behaviours and messages we
present on and off the platform.
A Note on the relationship of Our Association Values with Individual Values
Our Association Core Values are intended to support and
be congruent with the individual values of its members. As an
Association, we recognize our members will have additional values to
which they will hold as important. There may be times when personal
values supercede association values; however, it needs to be clear the
ethical standards of the Association and the Code of Conduct are
expected to prevail.
Recommended Actions
The values statement be at the front of the board papers and read at the beginning of each board meeting.
As policies are raised, being decided or enacted they be reviewed against the values as part of the consideration.
An NSAA values slide be presented in every chapter meeting as either a
standard opening item or closing item with an encouraging statement
from the Chapter President or MC.
Please do not highlight people as living examples as it locks them into
expectations which mean exercising their personal values in some
situations can be misinterpreted as NSAA values.
